Fields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered "PhD-level" math research in under two hours with zero human help
Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers had ChatGPT 5.5 Pro tackle open problems in number theory. The model improved an exponential bound to a polynomial one in under an hour. An MIT researcher involved calls the key idea "completely original." Gowers' takeaway: the bar for mathematical…
Broadcom reportedly won't build OpenAI's custom chip unless Microsoft buys 40 percent of them
OpenAI's custom AI chip project with Broadcom has hit a funding wall. Broadcom won't finance production unless Microsoft commits to buying 40 percent of the chips, and Microsoft hasn't agreed yet. OpenAI manager Sachin Katti called the dependency "financially unattractive" in an…
Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search
Google frames "Preferred Sources" as a way to bring more quality journalism into search. In practice, it shifts responsibility to a manual setting almost no one will use. That gives Google a user-choice argument for users and regulators while it keeps sidelining the open web in…